Effectively Wild Episode 1158: Is a Harper in the Hand Worth Two on the 25-Man?
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 3 January 2018
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
Ben Lindbergh and former co-host Sam Miller of ESPN discuss what (if anything) future generations will remember about the 2017 season, then answer listener emails about an Albert Pujols hypothetical, preserving and valuing front-office secrets, whether keeping Bryce Harper would be worth carrying his brother, planning the perfect baseball-fan retirement, and whether baseball fields are shaped the way they should be, plus a Stat Blast about the sequel to Robert Gsellman’s no-swing season and an ERA mystery.
Audio intro: Gillian Welch, "The Devil Had a Hold of Me"
Audio outro: Robyn Hitchcock, "The Devil’s Radio"
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| 0:00.0 | But the day will hate it hold on me |
| 0:07.0 | The day will hate it hold on me |
| 0:13.0 | I slam back down when it pulled by me |
| 0:18.0 | The day will hate it hold on me |
| 0:22.0 | Hello and welcome to episode 1158 of Effectively Wild |
| 0:27.0 | A baseball podcast from Vigraphs presented by our Patreon supporters |
| 0:31.0 | I'm Ben Lindbergh of the Ringer and I'm joined by Sam Miller of ESPN |
| 0:36.0 | who is filling in temporarily for Jeff Sullivan who is in a sense permanently filling in for him |
| 0:42.0 | Welcome back |
| 0:43.0 | Did you know that today is the one year anniversary of your first episode without me? |
| 0:48.0 | Oh is it? |
| 0:49.0 | Episode of episode 1,001, yeah |
| 0:51.0 | Wow, it's just flown by |
| 0:53.0 | Has it? |
| 0:54.0 | Has it? |
| 0:55.0 | No, not really, it's been a lot of episodes but it's gone pretty smoothly I think |
| 1:01.0 | Better than I could have hoped we miss you around here but I hope we're... |
| 1:05.0 | I feel like... |
| 1:06.0 | Yeah, I don't know any of the jokes |
| 1:08.0 | I feel like you're gonna have all these jokes that I'm not gonna get |
| 1:12.0 | You're gonna be snickering at my obliviousness to your trampoline humor or whatever |
| 1:19.0 | Even that, even trampoline humor is like so old for you guys |
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